Surprise Girl 3 Reportedly Lifeless, Jason Momoa Shift to Lobo, Black Adam, Superman Sequels Unsure

The most important information to interrupt on Wednesday was that Patty Jenkins script, co-written with DC Comics famous person scribe Geoff Johns, for “Surprise Girl 3” has been rejected, presumably shuttering Gal Gadot’s movie franchise.

Gunn and Safran have been getting their capes in a row forward of a reported assembly with Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav the place they’re anticipated to put out their future plans for the superhero line, based on The Hollywood Reporter.

Whereas not a lot is but recognized, and far might nonetheless change, THR cites a number of sources as saying “WW3” is useless, with the brand new workforce atop DC Studios (Warner Bros. Photos co-chairs and co-CEOs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy, together with Gunn and Safran) telling her it not match with their plans for the road.

In fact, this certainly not makes it definitive that Gadot is finished within the function or that there may not be one other “Surprise Girl” movie in her future — simply that this specific movie, constructing on the earlier two, is not taking place.

The information would come to seem as a shock to Gadot, although, who tweeted on Tuesday that she was searching for to sharing Surprise Girl’s subsequent chapter with followers.

It could possibly be larger than that, although, as one state of affairs that is been choosing up some traction is that it is not simply Jenkin’s “WW3” that is being put down, however the entirety of what is come to be generally known as Zack Snyder’s “Justice League.”

The piece famous that De Luca and Abdy at one level had been contemplating one other go spherical with Snyder’s model of the DC superheroes, culminating in one other “Justice League” movie. As an alternative, it will seem the brand new heads of DC Studios wish to presumably shed the previous solely.

That would additionally imply the top of Jason Momoa as Aquaman — although the actor might shift to the anti-hero DC followers have been wanting him to play alongside (extra on that in a bit) — and, maybe much more awkwardly, the top of Henry Cavill’s run as Superman after that shock “Black Adam” cameo.

In response to THR, when Cavill touted his pleasure at returning, even stepping away from his starring function in “The Witcher” to place again on the cape, Warner Bros. was reportedly growing a sequel to his “Man of Metal,” with the aim of a extra hopeful tone.

Final month, TheWrap pumped the brakes on these hopes, indicating that insiders had been reporting the mission was placed on maintain whereas Gunn and Safran fine-tuned their long-term plans. Additional, the positioning stories there isn’t any cope with Cavill to return.

Already swirling across the rumor mill is the destiny of “Black Adam,” with THR’s state of affairs saying that it is unlikely to warrant a sequel. Their insiders say the movie might be fortunate to interrupt even, although its star begged to vary.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson pushed again towards a Selection report that the movie would lose greater than $50 million theatrically, insisting as an alternative that it will revenue by about that margin, citing a Deadline breakdown that rejected Selection’s assertion.

In actual fact, earlier within the day on Tuesday, Deadline’s authentic story made point out of a “Black Adam” sequel in growth, in addition to one centering on Aldis Hodge’s Hawkman being “mapped out by [Dwayne] Johnson’s Seven Bucks.” The piece acknowledged the franchise would come into clearer focus as soon as Safran and Gunn solidify their plans in early 2024. As famous by ComingSoon, this paragraph has since been eliminated.

Johnson has been very bullish about “Black Adam” being a key a part of the brand new route for DC, and crediting himself with pushing onerous to deliver Cavill again into the fold, which THR says “will not be endearing him to the brand new administration.”

As for Momoa, it is potential that the upcoming “Aquaman: Misplaced Metropolis” (out December 25, 2023) could possibly be his swan dive because the King of Atlantis, however not essentially his departure from the franchise. That movie would mark the top of the primary iteration of DC, resulting in a potential onerous reset.

That would free him as much as tackle the function he was born to play, in the event you ask many DC followers, the intergalactic bounty looking bastich himself, Lobo.

Forward of the subsequent Aquaman are three different DC movies that may seem like constructing on the previous, with “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” coming March 17, adopted by multiversal mashup “The Flash” on June 16, and “Blue Beetle” August 18.

It does seem, per THR, that Matt Reeves’ increasing “The Batman” line of movies and tv sequence stays untouched right now, which is simple sufficient to handle as none of it strays a lot from Gotham Metropolis at this level. Additionally untouched right now is the “Joker” sequel.

It is also no less than potential that some items of the present DC film universe because it exists will survive into the presumed relaunch. “Blue Beetle” has just about no connection to current movies, whereas Zachary Levi’s “Shazam!” sequence stands largely alone, as effectively. To not point out, “The Flash” affords a uncommon alternative to choose and select what to maintain and what to reject.

Based mostly on the favored “Flashpoint” story, “The Flash” a bevy of DC heroes from throughout a number of DC continuities, together with Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck as Batman. Momoa and Cavill have already filmed cameos, although the identical stories point out uncertainty as as to if or not Cavill’s might be used, as they do not need to promise one thing they haven’t any intention of delivering.

Whereas it had at one time been touted as a turning level for the DCEU, “The Flash” has turn into a problematic mission for the studio because of the off-screen controversies of its star Ezra Miller. It may be seen as simpler at this level to only sever that relationship and begin over. However the movie might nonetheless be used to set the stage for the brand new DCU.

It might seem that Gunn and Safran wish to construct one thing extra akin to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which implies interconnected tales and continuity. That is one thing DC started to shrink back from after tepid responses to numerous of its DC Prolonged Universe movies.

If plans are solidified in time, it could possibly be {that a} new post-credits bumper — or a brand new scene solely — is ready for “The Flash” or any of the opposite upcoming DC movies, to set the stage for regardless of the new DC goes to appear like come 2024 and past.

Nevertheless it performs out — and it might nonetheless change dramatically as Gunn and Safran proceed to develop their technique with Zaslav, De Luca and Abdy — there may be lots of momentum behind DC Studios and pleasure about its new co-CEOs coming on the properties with a unified, long-term imaginative and prescient for the longer term.